A Royal Worcester 'Limoges Enamel' decorated exhibition quality chalice and cover, dated 1867, the enamel decoration by Thomas Bott, Snr, the tapering cup-shaped body on a knopped stem and circular foot, the cover with a domed and finialled centre, cobalt blue ground with enamelled motifs and gilt details throughout, the body decorated all round with a gilt arcade enclosing female figures personifying classical virtues, each identified, finely rendered in white enamel, signed and dated by Bott underside, 30 cm high. Other notes: Potentially Exhibited at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle (given date and very early signature). Condition: Wear to the gilding at the meeting edges of rim and cover with possible regilding